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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 4591. Reed City Boy, by Timothy James Bazzett (read 5 Jul 2009) This is an easy to read unpretentious true story of a kid's life till he leaves Reed City, Michigan, after graduation from high school. I found that I was eager to read it and it took me less than two days. One admires much about the boy, including that it is not a memoir which says "I was raised Catholic" (implying he is no more--the author makes it clear he still is.) So many good touches about the book--even some taste of farm chores--though he never learned to milk a cow! I look forward to reading about the next phase of his life, and trust I will continue to admire him even as the innocent kid from a small town in Michigan is thrust into Army life with all the temptations he will face there. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Meet Tim Bazzett, fifty years ago. This book is not so much a memoir as a rambling and luminous letter he is writing to his kids. In it he pays tribute and homage to his parents, to his teachers, and to Reed City, the town that shaped him. Mining his earliest memories, Bazzett tells of childhood scrapes, homemade toys, playing cowboys and "war" and even comes clean about an embarrassing feat of flatulence in a most unlikely place which became legend in family lore. He takes you along to Indian Lake, where he spent his summers swimming, and to Saturday matinees at the Reed Theater, where he learned homespun values from Gene and Roy. Youll meet the nuns who educated him at St. Philips School, where he learned to dance and diagram. Early struggles with sex, sin and "Catholic guilt" are given their due, along with a short-lived religious vocation and a stint at the seminary. A "pseudo-farm kid," Bazzett tells too of his trials with cows, chickens, and picking pickles; and of lessons in "animal psychology" learned from his grandfather. His high school years are marred by pimples, dorkiness, and pining for the "popular" girls, but brightened by a few close friends and some minor successes on the basketball court. He loves some of his teachers, clashes with others, and even terrorizes one, as he fumbles his way toward manhood. Its all here - the work, the play, the frustrations and the joys of growing up working-class and Catholic in the heart of small-town America. Anyone who has been there will chuckle, remember and relate to Reed City Boy. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Bazzett acknowledges his debt to his youngest brother and his mother in recreating his story but even so, he has an amazing recall of events and people from his past. The memoir is mostly chronological but also organized thematically in chapters that tackle things as varied as the way he and his brothers played in their free time to extended family visits to driving to seeing his first (nearly) naked woman. The writing is well done and this nostalgic reminiscence of a book, this personal letter to his children, will definitely appeal to readers who remember this innocent time in their own lives as well as in the country. For those a bit younger, the evocation of time and place and the delights of childhood and growing up have a more historical flavor but personalize that history and offer a peek into daily life that our history books in school ignored.
Thanks to author Tim Bazzett for sending me a copy of this book to review. ( )